Will they be able to do this with on-stage plays one wonders...
steve
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doyle wrote:
The computing problem of producing images (conversational agents) that are
realistic in real time . . .is probably insurmountable. . . .is unrealistic
about
The paragraph below is quoted from the web page of a
typical developing government following the Washington
concensus and underlines the Privatization dogma
In addition, the Government is in process of
preparing the privatization file for a number of
sectors such as telecommunications and
Jim Devine wrote:
In any event,
people can and do figure out ways to use oil more efficiently each year.
=
In last December's Monthly Review (vol 52, no 7) John Bellamy Foster wrote a
good article resurrecting the Jevons Paradox: Chapter Seven of The Coal
Question was entitled 'Of the
Private Eye
No. 1031
29 June - 12 July, 2001
In The Back:
Hakluyt Watch
Who exactly is Michael Maclay, director of Hakluyt, the mysterious
intelligence agency exposed by the Sunday Times (17 June) as an employer
of spies in the green and peace movements?
Mr Maclay is an informative chap. He
Jim Devine wrote:
In any event,
people can and do figure out ways to use oil more efficiently each year.
=
In last December's Monthly Review (vol 52, no 7) John Bellamy Foster wrote a
good article resurrecting the Jevons Paradox: Chapter Seven of The Coal
Question was entitled 'Of the
Yoshie writes:
In contrast, Mark's framework -- the second law of thermodynamics,
the law of diminishing returns, etc. -- suggests that he thinks that
the problem is not so much capitalism as industrialization that the
solution is deindustrialization under socialism, substituting
Penners
Michael Maclay gave a paper at a conference organised by the European
Thematic Network in Political Science in Leiden, July 1999. His paper can
still be accessed (http://www.epsnet.org/news/eurolei.htm). In it he
describes his own career up to that point (sketchily of course), the work
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Unlike Mark, however, Foster doesn't argue against a possibility of a
technological solution _under socialism
Yoshie, please don't attribute to me things I have not said. As Michael
Perelman might say, I can speak for myself.
Mark Jones
You might clarify your
Thanks Doyle, for carrying the ball a bit further, that's what I meant.
However, I think the commodification of that shared attention (as
cooperative or uncooperative (not necessarily the game theory difference
between SM and BD in the adult entertainment context)) will be a fruitful
area of
On 3 July Mark Jones wrote:
Noam Chomsky has been saying that BAe has been taken over by the Americans
and that there is now a split between Euro defence industry and
Anglo-American defence industry, to mirror the big strategic divide. I
haven't been able to find much for or against Chomsky; BAe
Yoshie writes:
You might clarify your political program, then. If not
deindustrialization labor-intensive production under socialism,
what do you think would allow human beings to live with the
constraints that you have us posit? Do you agree with Sweezy
Foster that an energy revolution
Forwarded from Louis Proyect:
Hardt-Negri's Empire: a Marxist critique, part 4 (conclusion)
Like a hot air balloon detached from its moorings, part four of Empire
sails into the stratosphere with empty metaphysical speculation even more
divorced from the material world than the preceding three
Michael Keaney says:
I won't speak for Mark, whose erudition in this matter is beyond reproach
IMO, but I will say that, historically, it is capitalist development that
has been the model. Even Lenin (and later Stalin, and now China) drank from
the well dug by Taylor, Gantt et al. That is, what
Yoshie writes:
You might clarify your political program, then. If not
deindustrialization labor-intensive production under socialism,
what do you think would allow human beings to live with the
constraints that you have us posit? Do you agree with Sweezy
Foster that an energy revolution will
At 07:58 PM 07/09/2001 -1000, you wrote:
Here's another issue for possible consideration. Is the problem one of
oil shortages given the stubborness of US car companies to not design
autombiles that conserve greater amounts of gas? In fact, perhaps the
argument could be made that we have way more
Sam Pawlett said:
Ok. I think I've nailed the problem: the energy base of
capitalism is only
sustainable as long as technological change and efficiency improvements
offset the increasing marginal costs associated with exploiting the
declining quality of the resource base,
((
Yoshie
It's not clear to me that we disagree on anything substantive. The
implication that I'm somehow having a go at Lenin is misplaced, because the
point is not how mistaken Lenin was, but how constrained by his
circumstances he was. Those circumstances included civil war and the
unwarranted
I hadn't been paying attention, but there's a scandal a-brewing in
Washington DC. Gary Condit, a Congresscritter from California has been
accused of (1) having an affair with his intern/aide, Chandra Levy, who has
dropped from sight; and (2) killing her. Well, not having totally purged my
The media here has been saturated
with Condit/Levy for weeks, and JD has just found out.
Fox news and the cable outfits are having a field day
w/this stuff. Latest rumor is she may have gotten
pregnant. Condit's wife was in town when she
disappeared. Lots of circumstances, but no facts.
By
Teamsters Enter New Era With 26th Convention (Jul. 9, 2001)
By Greg Tarpinian
from ECONOMIC NOTES
Putting the debacle of its divided 1996 Convention and scandal-plagued 1996 election
behind it, the Teamsters union at its 26th International Convention, held June 25-29
in Las Vegas,
At 11:03 AM 07/10/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Jim, by the way, f.y.i. the Beatles have broken up, but
they may do some recording separately.
I'm willing to pay my entire life's savings if the four of those lads would
get back together again to play a concert.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Condit (D) R W R R R R W R W W 6 4 89 33 60% 73%
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From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/cdef/carchedi_europe.shtml
Michael Keaney says:
It's not clear to me that we disagree on anything substantive. The
implication that I'm somehow having a go at Lenin is misplaced, because the
point is not how mistaken Lenin was, but how constrained by his
circumstances he was. Those circumstances included civil war and the
- Original Message -
From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One observer quoted in today's column by Bob Scheer in today's L.A. TIMES
once said that Condit and the now-Attorney General John Ashcroft were the
two most fundamentalist and conservative people in Congress. It might
actually be an
I'm willing to pay my entire life's savings if the four of those lads
would get back together again to play a concert.
Alas, I doubt we shall see even three of 'em. George apparently now has
cancer in his head.
Oh, and having blitzed the 'citizens' contentment' poll and the 'perceived
Michael Keaney says:
It's not clear to me that we disagree on anything substantive. The
implication that I'm somehow having a go at Lenin is misplaced, because the
point is not how mistaken Lenin was, but how constrained by his
circumstances he was. Those circumstances included civil war and the
[NYT]
July 10, 2001
I.M.F. Warning on Asian Recovery
By DON KIRK
SEOUL, South Korea, July 9 - A senior official for the International
Monetary Fund warned today that the structural reforms demanded by
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan could undermine long-term
regional efforts to recover
I see that the Nasdaq is about to bust through 2000, and that they're
beginning to get out of the finance sector now. Argentina's prospects are
getting some suits a bit wet apparently.
All Europe's fault, if the Yancqui G7 contingent are to be believed ...
Michael Keaney says:
It's not clear to me that we disagree on anything substantive. The
implication that I'm somehow having a go at Lenin is misplaced, because the
point is not how mistaken Lenin was, but how constrained by his
circumstances he was. Those circumstances included civil war and the
Michael,
I'm not sure I agree. Yoshie isn't accusing Mark of not being a Marxist or
not being a committed socialist or, even more ridiculously, supporting
capitalism. Nor is she outright misquoting a person, just asking for
clarification and/or making a challenge to someone w/o throwing out
I wrote:
what is meant by neutral with respect to interest rates?
David Shemano writes:
I mean that the Fed would stop its search for the holy grail of the
perfect interest rate at any given moment of time. The Fed would not
focus on the bond market, unemployment, capacity utilization, or any
I wrote:
in addition, Louis P. has argued (pretty convincingly) that the early
Bolshevik regime was pretty ecologically-minded (especially by the
standards of the day), until the rot set in
says Yoshie:
Many Greens understand the rot in question to be the ideology of
productivism, but I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/01 12:27AM
Also, despite the fantasies of W. and his boss from Wyoming, the
extraction of fossil fuels is a messy process, threating water supplies
and other scarce resources.
(((
CB: A helpful summary review, Michael. In what sense is water a scarce resource ?
From: Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [marxistphilosophy] garage giveaway: HALDEMAN-JULIUS other left
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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:12:41 -0400
A request came to me for disposition of this material; anyone out there
know who
Water is and is not renewable. Once it becomes contaminated, it can be
very expensive to reclaim.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:13:10PM -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/01 12:27AM
Also, despite the fantasies of W. and his boss from Wyoming, the
extraction of fossil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/01 12:27AM
Also, despite the fantasies of W. and his boss from Wyoming, the
extraction of fossil fuels is a messy process, threating water
supplies
and other scarce resources.
(((
CB: A helpful summary review, Michael. In what sense is water a
scarce
*-*-*-* Tuesday July 10, 11:04 am Eastern Time
German Growth Prediction Is Slashed
Leading Economic Institute Slashes Its Growth Forecast for Germany
By HANS GREIMEL AP Business Writer
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Shaking confidence in Europe's ability to stave
off recession, a leading
July 9th New Yorker magazine. Subsequent issue, E. Kolbert
on Kathy Boudin and the Weather Underground.
Michael Pugliese
Re: H20 The secret Knowledge of Water, by Craig Childs,
www.sasquatchBooks.com
From: Ian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 7/10/01 11:42:56 AM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/01 12:27AM
Also, despite the fantasies of W. and his boss from Wyoming,
the
extraction of fossil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/01 02:42PM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/01 12:27AM
Also, despite the fantasies of W. and his boss from Wyoming, the
extraction of fossil fuels is a messy process, threating water
supplies
and other scarce resources.
(((
CB: A helpful summary review, Michael.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/01 02:28PM
Water is and is not renewable. Once it becomes contaminated, it can be
very expensive to reclaim.
(
CB: Can't one just heat it and let it evaporate ?
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:13:10PM -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/01
Absolutely, the design of cars, the construction of housing, the location of
housing, and a multitude of other factors affect the rate of depletion.
I believe that the point that Mark is making is that even if we were to make
enormous improvements in such areas, even if we find a way to drive
(((
CB: A helpful summary review, Michael. In what sense is water a
scarce resource ? I sure hope it's renewable.
=
unless you have a quantum computer that can synthesize H20 from a
bunch of probability amplitudes in mass quantities don't count on
it.
:-) :-)
Ian
CB: Can't one just heat it and let it evaporate ?
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:13:10PM -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
=
What will you do to trap the toxic chemicals from diffusing into the
atmosphere [atmofractal :-)] and killing people?
Ian
((
CB: Our use of H 0 doesn't break it down chemically like oil and
gas, yes ?
2
The amount of water on earth remains constant , no ?
==
CB,
1]Yes, but the problem is undoing the chemical bonds of stuff that
attaches to it easily, yet costs a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/01 03:57PM
CB: Can't one just heat it and let it evaporate ?
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:13:10PM -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
=
What will you do to trap the toxic chemicals from diffusing into the
atmosphere [atmofractal :-)] and killing people?
Re: Design of Cars: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at Ohio State University,
are you here today, Yoshie, Young Communist League chapter at
OSU!) on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, just said
that the East German cars were biodegradable! True? Michael Pugliese
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Michael Perelman wrote:
Absolutely, the design of cars, the construction of housing, the location of
housing, and a multitude of other factors affect the rate of depletion.
I believe that the point that Mark is making is that even if we were to make
enormous
Charles said:
The amount of water on earth remains constant , no ?
http://www.sprl.umich.edu/GCL/Notes-1999-Winter/freshwater.html
CB: Can't one just heat it and let it evaporate ?
the problem is to heat ALL that water up from 60 degrees F, say, to
some much higher temperature to make
And
there is much capitalist industry that can, without great disagreement among
socialists, be decommissioned. That pertaining to the military sector would
be a good place to start.
Michael K.
Military spending is 2% of OECD GDP, of which only 1/4 is the
procurement of products that are
((
CB: I didn't know about the chemically bonding contamination. How
much is contaminated ? Sounds like a small percentage .
How about taking a bunch of hydrogen and oxygen and combining it to
make new water ?
===
That's where the Star Trek technology comes in. You'd need a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/10/01 03:57PM
CB: Can't one just heat it and let it evaporate ?
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:13:10PM -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
=
What will you do to trap the toxic chemicals from diffusing into the
atmosphere [atmofractal :-)] and killing people?
The last sentence is unnecessary.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:01:30PM -0700, Brad DeLong wrote:
And
there is much capitalist industry that can, without great disagreement among
socialists, be decommissioned. That pertaining to the military sector would
be a good place to start.
Michael K.
CB: I didn't know about the chemically bonding contamination. How
much is contaminated ? Sounds like a small percentage .
How about taking a bunch of hydrogen and oxygen and combining it
to
make new water ?
===
That's where the Star Trek technology comes in. You'd need a quantum
While pollution of water supplies is an issue in some
locations, the real issue is building and maintaining
a distribution system. We're pretty much maxxed out in
CA, although there's some crazy proposals out there to
do things like double the size of Shasta Lake and
build an
Mark,
given all that you have said, your estimation of the difference between
people like yourself, moi, yoshie, or doug, it turns out is really not
that great after allfor better or worse...
Steve
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Mark Jones wrote:
Stephen E Philion wrote:
I'd be curious to know
PEN-L folks like Gene Coyle ought to be on the rolodex at IPA.
Michael Pugliese
Institute for Public Accuracy
915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
(202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Tuesday,
Have a peek (but you might have to do some delving):
http://www.uniondues.com/
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
I've been looking over the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP)
annual report: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2001:
Making new technologies work for human development, published today
on the
UNDP website:
http://www.undp.org/hdr2001/
It is a paean of praise to the globalising
Medical journals give free access to poor
Sarah Boseley
Tuesday July 10, 2001
The Guardian
Six of the world's leading medical publishers pledged yesterday to
allow free access to their scientific journals, via the internet, to
those in the poorest countries who could not otherwise afford them.
Greetings Econo Mysts,
Wrapping up with conversing with Eric,
Eric Nillson writes
I'm not sure, but we might be talking about different things. It appears you
are talking about the creation of a cyber actor which could, in theory, act
on the stage, live, while people watch.
I'm talking about
http://www.factservices.org/html/1999.html#lcsc
Labor/Community Strategy Center (LCSC) $30,000
Contact: Eric Mann, Director
3780 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1200
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Telephone: (213) 387-2800 Fax: (213) 387-3500
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web address: www.thestrategycenter.org or
That's right, the bus riders' union page is
http://www.busridersunion.org/index.html
steve
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Michael Perelman wrote:
He was, if I am not mistaken, the main organizer of the Los Angeles Bus
Riders Union -- an almost impossible task.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:45:46PM
My doubts were about whether he should be called the MAIN organizer.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 04:12:20PM -1000, Stephen E Philion wrote:
That's right, the bus riders' union page is
http://www.busridersunion.org/index.html
steve
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Michael Perelman wrote:
He was, if I
Los Angeles Times
July 9, 2001
http://www.latimes.com/print/health/20010709/t56343.html
Los Angeles Times
July 9, 2001
Old-Fashioned Doctoring Keeps Cubans Healthy
By SARAH LUNDAY, Special to The Times
HAVANA--In the office of Dr. Alex Carreras near downtown Havana,
water drips from a
http://www.ejil.org/journal/Vol12/No1/art1.pdf
Abstract
International trade is undergoing a transformation commonly referred
to as 'constitutionalization'. Despite the ubiquity of the phrase, its
meaning remains ambiguous and its significance underexplored. The
purpose of this article is to
Didn't international law evolve out of the rules that traders established
(lex mercatoria)?
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:03:31PM -0700, Ian Murray wrote:
http://www.ejil.org/journal/Vol12/No1/art1.pdf
Abstract
International trade is undergoing a transformation commonly referred
to as
Didn't international law evolve out of the rules that traders
established
(lex mercatoria)?
Externalizing/socializing the costs of protection via the struggle to
mitigate the contradictions between advantage and
neutrality/impartiality in juridical norm making.
Ian
I've been looking over the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP)
annual report: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2001:
Making new technologies work for human development, published today
on the
UNDP website:
http://www.undp.org/hdr2001/
It is a paean of praise to the globalising
I've been looking over the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP)
annual report: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2001:
Making new technologies work for human development, published
today
on the
UNDP website:
http://www.undp.org/hdr2001/
It is a paean of praise to the
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